Bottles
From today's paper:
RALEIGH -- How did five lines related to biodegradable plastic bottles make it into the Senate budget draft -- freaking out bottlers, outraging Republicans, surprising the only company that makes them, and showing exactly how random the process of putting together a $21.4 billion spending bill can be?Two words: Marc Basnight.
The quirky, environmentally-minded Senate President Pro Tempore has enough clout to finagle any item he wants into his chamber's version of the budget. And what he has wanted lately are ways for North Carolina to reduce its consumption of foreign oil and to pollute less.
Since most plastic bottles are made from oil and many end up in landfills, Basnight jumped at the chance to boost anyone making biodegradable containers made from plants.
But flexing legislative muscle, even to save the planet, can have unintended consequences.
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Linkage: The company mentioned in the story is Primo Water Corporation in Winston-Salem.
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Since most plastic bottles are made from oil and many end up in landfills, Basnight jumped at the chance to boost anyone making biodegradable containers made from plants* Mark
It appears that Senator Basnight is not aware that there is tons of other plastic base oil products on the Globalist market. Medical x-ray, Medical Pill containers, Medical tubing, Medical sanitary gloves, and even the operational clothes that cover the medical teams. I can't wait until he decides to have these products become biodegradable. Of course, wait he finds out his forks and spoons at his eating establishment falls under this amazing plan of his to change the world in the 21 st century.
Posted on June 22, 2008 7:03 PM